מָעַט maat
Hebrew word for “to diminish” · Strong’s H4591 · used 22 times in 21 verses
Meaning
1) to be or become small, be few, be diminished;
How it is translated
Glosses given for maat in context, with how often each is used:
- will make small 4
- one who made little 2
- will diminish 2
- will be too small 1
- will make little 1
- being small 1
- one who did little 1
- will decrease 1
- make few 1
- small 1
- made few 1
- became few 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exodus | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Numbers | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Leviticus | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Jeremiah | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Nehemiah | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 16 (2), Psalms 107 (2), Exodus 12 (1), Exodus 30 (1), Leviticus 25 (1), Leviticus 26 (1), Numbers 11 (1), Numbers 26 (1), Numbers 33 (1), Numbers 35 (1)
Forms
- ימעט 3
- תמעיט 3
- והממעיט 2
- ימעיט 2
- ימעטו 2
- מעט 1
- והמעיטה 1
- הממעיט 1
- תמעיטו 1
- תמעיטי 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with maat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- רָבָה ravah “to multiply” 11
- פֶּה peh “lip” 5
- מְעַט meat “little” 3
- אַל al “not” 4
- נַחֲלָה nachalah “inheritance” 3
- שָׁכֵן shakhen “neighboring” 2
- לָקַט laqat “to gather” 2
- אֹכֶל okhel “food” 2
- נָחַל nachal “to inherit” 2
- רַב rav “many” 3
- מִסְפָּר mispar “number” 2
- גִּבּוֹר gibbor “mighty man” 2
Key verses
The verses using maat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 30:15 — The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your…
- Leviticus 26:22 — I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be…
- Numbers 33:54 — And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give…
- Nehemiah 9:32 — Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath…
- Psalms 107:38 — He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
- Psalms 107:39 — Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
- Proverbs 13:11 — Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
- Ecclesiastes 12:3 — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that…
- Isaiah 21:17 — And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
- Jeremiah 10:24 — O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
- Jeremiah 29:6 — Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye…
- Jeremiah 30:19 — And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify…
See all 21 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.